The pervasiveness of trauma in American society is intimately linked to the ubiquity of sexual violence in our culture, and ultimately, the politics that buttresses this reality. In the second ...

Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and researcher whose work has profoundly influenced the field of trauma and recovery. With a career spanning several decades, she is celebrated for her ...

Violence is ubiquitous in American life, and so is the trauma that follows in its wake. From the domestic sphere to the public sphere, interpersonal violence, particularly of a sexual nature, is ...

Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, as well as the Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital. She earned her MD from ...

Herman (Trauma and Recovery), a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, delivers an incisive report on the links between patriarchy and gendered violence, and offers a plan for helping ...

In “Truth and Repair,” her follow-up to 1992’s “Trauma and Recovery,” the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a “private, individual matter.” By Christine Kenneally When you ...